Merleau-Ponty’s embodied liveliness reflected his view that philosophy and life are one
Evidence
Merleau-Ponty’s jive and swing moves went along with a generally urbane manner and a perfect ease in company. … He combined his night life with being a devoted family man, with a very different domestic routine from that of Sartre or Beauvoir. … He seemed more alive than other philosophers, she says — more in life — but this was because philosophy and life were the same to him. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 748
Categorization
- XREF: Shows the existentialist embodied-life theme against Sartre/Beauvoir’s more abstracted, mental lives — connects to the broad phenomenology-of-the-body thread in this book and to Merleau-Ponty’s own Phenomenology of Perception. — connects to: Philosophy gains interest when cast as a lived biography — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 105; Merleau-Ponty pioneered embodied cognition by centering the body and perception in philosophy — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1026; Existentialism holds that philosophy grows out of concrete lived experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 54 (+1 more)
Broader Connections
- Existentialism holds that philosophy grows out of concrete lived experience
#expands(0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 54 - Merleau-Ponty pioneered embodied cognition by centering the body and perception in philosophy
#expands(0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1026 - Existentialist philosophy demands literary form to convey embodied lived experience
#corroborates(0.75) — Christine Daigle, Jacob Golomb (eds.), Beauvoir and Sartre, 37